Botany
The Big Idea. The intelligent tree. Audio, 9 minutes
Are trees intelligent?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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CrowdScience. Do Plants Talk about Sex? Audio, 27 minutes
Plants do communicate, but what are they talking about? Sex seems a likely answer
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Science In Action. Japanese Space Mission Hayabusa 2 Reaches Asteroid. Audio, 27 minutes
Japanese space mission Hayabusa 2 successfully reaches boulder strewn asteroid - Ryugu
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Is Eating Plants Wrong? Audio, 27 minutes
Plant scientists claim that plants cannot just sense, but communicate, learn and remember
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The Life Scientific. Caroline Dean reveals the genetic secrets of flowering. Audio, 28 minutes
Professor Dame Caroline Dean on why some plants need cold before they can flower.
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Is Eating Plants Wrong? Audio, 28 minutes
Plants can do much more than we might think. So is it wrong to eat them?
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Science In Action. Geothermal Activity and Earthquakes. Audio, 27 minutes
Could a geothermal project have caused an earthquake in South Korea?
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Open Country. Torridge and Taw, North Devon. Audio, 25 minutes
Writer Linda Cracknell joins Helen Mark in North Devon to seek out her maritime roots.
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The Life Scientific. Ottoline Leyser on how plants decide what to do. Audio, 28 minutes
Ottoline Leyser talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how plants decide to grow the way they do.
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The Life Scientific. Alison Smith on algae. Audio, 28 minutes
Professor Alison Smith talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the many and varied uses of algae.
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Crafty Orchids. Audio, 28 minutes
Why are orchids so popular? Jim Endersby offers a new scientific history of their allure.
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The Life Scientific. Kathy Willis on botany. Audio, 28 minutes
Kathy Willis, Kew Gardens' director of science, discusses biodiversity with Jim Al-Khalili
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Natural Histories. Nightshades. Audio, 28 minutes
Brett Westwood looks at the nightshade group of plants and human culture. From 2015
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The Infinite Monkey Cage. Series 11, What Is the Point of Plants? Audio, 30 minutes
Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests ask, 'What's the point of plants?'.
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The Life Scientific. Sandy Knapp. Audio, 28 minutes
Botanist Sandy Knapp talks about her adventures collecting plants in South America.
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Open Country. The Avon Gorge, Bristol. Audio, 25 minutes
Felicity Evans explores the wild landscape of Bristol's Avon Gorge.
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The Forum. Plant and flower shapes. Audio, 41 minutes
What makes a plant leaf or flower either flat and simple or curly and complicated?
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A Life With ... Series 6, Mosses. Audio, 15 minutes
Mary Colwell meets a man whose life revolves around tiny green plants.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Tulips on the Moon. Audio, 30 minutes
Documentary looking at the concept of growing plants in space and even on spacecraft.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
